For the first time, TopDrawerSoccer.com is rolling out a high school best XI series. The monthly boys and girls teams will honor a selection of the nation’s best high school talent currently in season across the nation. A new boys and girls XI will be released at the end of each month, with the previous four weeks coming to bear on the selection. If you’d like to submit players to be considered in the last week of each month, send your player and their stats to highschool@topdrawersoccer.com.

Since California wrapped up its talent-rich winter season this month, March is heavy on California players who used the season as a launch-pad to bigger things.

Boys

GK Stefan Skoff, Westmont High School (Campbell, Calif.)

D Tradd Specter, Hammond School (Columbia, S.C.)

D Daniel Pailthorpe, Capital High School (Olympia, Wash.)

D Trenton Matson, Las Lomas High School (Walnut Creek, Calif.)

M Trey Blasingame, The Westminster Schools (Atlanta, Ga.)

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M Axel Mendez, Cathedral High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)

M Jesus Enriquez, Newark Memorial High School (Newark, Calif.)

M/F Rafael Espinoza, Southwest High School (San Diego, Calif.)

F Luis Deltoro, Johnson High School (Gainesville, Ga.)

F Nick Schnabel, Junipero Serra High School (San Mateo, Calif.)

F Sean Pleskow, Loyola High School (Los Angeles, Calif.) 

Girls

GK Daria Zarzeka, Randolph School (Huntsville, Ala.)

D Ashley Grant, Chestatee High School (Gainesville, Ga.)

D Dana Outcalt, Monte Vista High School (Danville, Calif.)

D Addy Pritchard, Oologah High School (Oologah, Okla.)

D/M Haylie Grant, Heritage High School (Brentwood, Calif.)

M Brianna Visalli, Valley Christian High School (San Jose, Calif.)

M Annie Kingman, St. Francis High School (Mountain View, Calif.)

F Destinney Duron, Hart High School (Newhall, Calif.)

F Caroline Byrd, Texas High School (Texarkana, Texas)

F Madison Hall, Byron Nelson High School (Trophy Club, Texas)

F Mallory Pugh, Mountain Vista High School (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)